Make a Paper Quilt
How you can help at home: This activity teaches math skills and creative problem solving.
Articles about:Second grade and math
Numbers sense
How you can help at home: This number-sense game played with dice helps your first grader build math concepts such as greater than and less than.
Raising a financially savvy child
Our readers offer their advice about how to teach money management to children.
Raising a financially intelligent child: focus on allowances
The authors of The Financially Intelligent Parent recommend giving your child an allowance - but don't tie it to chores.
Weather graph
How you can help at home: In this activity your child observes the weather and makes a bar graph.
How Can I Make Multiplication Fun?
My third-grader is struggling with the multiplication tables. Do you have any suggestions for making this fun?
Don't let their brains melt
Avoid summer school (and summer brain drain) with a little e-learning.
The power of play
As children slog though grueling schedules of enrichment and academics, researchers have found a connection between brain development and the very thing kids are getting less of.
Undercover calculation
Seven fun ways to work math into your kids' everyday routine.
Golden Apple Awards 2010 (ages 8-10)
Whether your kid likes DIY perfume kits or division drills, these toys are sure to please.
